Please
help again

: : : Okay
well stubborn as a mule was on the paper that my teacher handed out but o'well
can you please help me figure out how to either prove or disprove them. Thanks
so much

: : : food for thought
: : : in a nutshell
: : : knock on wood

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: I don't understand the assignment. It isn't clear what proving or disproving
any of these means. They aren't the kind of thing that can be proved or disproved;
that is, they aren't assertions; they aren't "true" or "not true." Each of them,
however, has been discussed recently in this forum because other people asked.
(Maybe those people were your classmates.) If you look for the phrases on the
main Discussion Forum page, you'll find something about the history of each one.

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ya those other disscusions were mine, see the assignment was to pick three or
four proverbs and back them up using scinifitic info. With that I have to write
a 500-700 word essay and I have no clue what I am doing

Well, it's your essay.
I can only make some suggestions.

Get some real PROVERBS. If you have to
show that a proverb is valid or invalid, it should be the kind that makes a statement,
like "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" or its opposite, "Out of sight, out
of mind." Caution: Don't try to "prove" both of these if you like to believe what
you write. Here's another one: "The apple never falls far from the tree." That
means that grown-up children resemble their parents. It's about character and
behavior more than looks. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him
drink" has implications for education. "A bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush." "Half a loaf is better than none." "You can't have your cake and eat it
too." "Enough is as good as a feast." "Where there's smoke, there's fire."

Unless the assignment says so, you don't have to argue purely for or purely against
what the proverb says. Many proverbs are too one-sided anyway. Sometimes a bird
in the hand (something immediately available) is better, and sometimes two in
the bush (a bigger gain that might come later) is better. You can write about
ways the proverb is right AND ways it is wrong. If there doesn't seem to be anything
scientific to say about the proverb, think of areas of life where the proverb
seems to apply and areas where it seems not to. You might look at different times
in history; you could take examples from stories or movies; you could take examples
from real life (work, school, family life, relationships). Write about those.

Be careful about spelling. That's important for an English class. (It's important
in other places, too. You might be surprised how many employers give spelling
tests to people who are trying to get jobs.) For example, the correct spelling
is "scientific."